Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-01-13
DEATH ON THE RAIL
Two Shocking Railway Accid ents
in One Day.
Nineteen Persons Killed and Many Moro
Injured on t!,o Baltimore & Ohio, and
One Killed and Several Injured
at Mittineaugue, Mass.

TIFrIS, O., Jan 5.-An eastbound
freight, drawn by engine No 70 while
running on an up grade nine miles east OF
here, and within half mile Of the village
II Republic, gave out and was unable to
make the grade The conductor ran for.
ward with a signal to flag the fast train
No. $, but it was too late, the train was
less than quarter Of mile distant, run
ming at the rate OF siNty-thrce miles per
hour. and it crashed into the freight.
wrccking both engines and the baggage.
express, smoking and one passenger car
OF the passenger train.
Within All almost incredible short snece
oil time the wreck was I'm flames and the
injured passengers wore beng burned.
The passengers in the two slcepers and
one coach escaped, numbering about fifty
Nlnctccn passengers in the smoker were
all Killed. One Irish emigrant alone es-
capped from the smoker, but afterwards
diei Of his wounds. He did not give his
name
The engineer Of the passenger Jumped
and escaped with disloCatel knee. The
fireman was pinned between the beams.
crushing his hips. He lived three hours
in that position and then died Nine
charrcd and hlaclicned bodies with the
limbs burned away were removed and laid
on the floor or the undertakcr's room The
sight was q horrible one. and there was no
resemblance TO human bolios In tho re
mans. At least ten more are supposed to
have persisted and been entirely burned
up. There is nothing but the bodies which
can help to identify them.
Among those identified are:
r.
and has two sops, Spencer and Henry, aged
eighteen ard eleven respectively. He
was from Now Mnrtln.vil,e. w. Va, and
was accompanied by his wife and three
other small children. the four latter being
saved. They were on their way to
ehllic3thc. No, to make that their home
:. y. Bradley, Of One Hundred and
Twelfth street, ID. c., a prominent Knight
OF Labor, on his way west to lecture, was
held by the feet in the car, his body pro-
tTtd'Hg from the window. IL was impos-
sible 10 extr'catc him and he burned to
death by inches. tIc gave his watch and
papers INTO the safe keeping Of others
A Mr.. Smith, OF BCnwcod, w. Va. was
III the car next TO the smoker, and was I'M
hurt. He SAYS the shock was not a very
great one. He was thrown from his seat
and thought the train had left the track
Nobody was very seriously hurt IN his
coach beyond bruises, cuts and burns.
Physicians We're summoned from this
city and Republic, and rendered efficient
service 10 the wounded. About a dozen
persons We're wounded, in addition to
those killed, not mentioned above.
Prominent railway officials were pres
cat Investigating the matter 1t is impos
sib.c to tell now who was to blame, but it
IS learned that the engineer, fireman and
the whole crew of the freight train were
drunk and neglected. of duty. The coro.
rer of the county win make fun investi-
CATION. The wounded were all hustled
out "f the county as quickly as possible by
the railroad officials.
The accident is charged to the conductor
ard engineer Of the freight train. They
pulled out of Republic when they should
have rcaained th0ro They claimed they
had thIrty-iive minutes to make the run
o1 lour miles and a quarter, which re-
CURED only eighteen minutes.
THE MiTTIHEAUQuE DISASTER.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. 4.-Mittin-
1auquc station was the scene OF a fright
full accidentearly this morning. The Mo-
doc train from Albany approached the de-
pot one hour behind time and running
within few rods of the station five of the
six cars left the track from some cause
rot definitely learned, but thought to be a
broken journal The train consisted of
Engine No. y, express, baggage. smoking
cars one day coach and two sleepers. The
engine and express car kept on the main
track and the baggage car was
th own against the engine Of the local
wcSt-5ound freight which had just pulled
III and was standing on the west-bound
ma n track. The freight engine was
thrown on It's side and completely
wrecked. The baggage and smoker and
one day coach Immediately took fire and
were consumed, except the bodies and
trucks. The head Of the first sleeping car
was charred, but not otherwise damaged |
LIST OF THE INJURED.
Charles b. Packard, WestfieId, printer, |
son of DR.. Packard. of WeStteld; injured |
in loin and other severe internal injuries; |
also bad scalp wound. 1t is feared he will |
not recover.
Francis Thompson, recently of the United |
States Life Saving station at Campbell, |
near San Francisco, cut and burned about |
the hip and legs
John I.sndcrs, West Springfield, fireman |
of TIE local freight; badly gashed about |
the head and face.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. S. Whtford, Providence |
Il. l.: thrown from scat and bruised Mr.. |
Whittord was badly cut under the lower |
jaw.
Lester L. Worden, Springfield; cut on
leg.
c. II. Clark, colored, Windsor Locks,
Conn; thrown out of window and left leg
cut and bruised.
Mrs. J. NJ. jerks and daughter, Mrs. F.
NJ. Chandler, of Troy, n. ", on their way
to Ludlow with the body of Mr.. jerks;
Mrs. jerks slightly sprained her ankle.
The body of Mr.. jerks was burned.
T. Dwyer and En- cline Dryer. with their
adopted daughter, Miss Mary Sekerino. of
Honolulu. Hawaiian islands. Miss Seke-
rino had her face slightly cut.
The through New York and Chicago
mail was on this train, and the mail for all
New England. There We're five pouches
Of this mail, and all were destroyed All
the Wcstficld and Pittsicld mail. and the
Albany letter mail Were destroyed, max
ing fourteen letter pouches that were
burned. There were about eighty sacks of
newspaper mail on the train, and all but
seven of those sacks were burned
Two More Wrecks.
FLNIRA, n ". Jan. 5.-At four o'clcck
yesterday morning the west bound Erie
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